Gary Greff hopes to turn his small town, Regent, N.D.,
into a tourist mecca through the "Enchanted Highway," a series of
giant metal sculptures he is erecting along the 30-mile road that
links Regent to the interstate.

On the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, an
innovative Dept. of Education is determined to break the cycle of
poverty, poor school performance and lack of economic opportunity
that afflicts the Lakota youth.

Essays

Although boring food, banged-up bodies and origami maps
make camping a lot harder than it looks in the Dodge Dakota
commercials, something like a middle-of-the-night look at the Milky
Way makes all the trouble worthwhile.

Environmentalists disagree over whether an oil
consortium's plan to build a pipeline across the Cascades is a good
thing that will reduce oil spills in the ocean, or a danger to the
mountains of Washington.